Maybe a 100 die in Iraq and Israel/Lebanon a week, but
10,000 people a week seems like a lot more.

I wonder why there hasn't been the focus because it is inward driven?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/01/AR2006090101453.html

"mortality in Darfur over the next year could exceed the present death toll of about half a million human beings, some 10,000 people a week."

they're foreigners, right?  do they have any oil?

Yes they have oil, and it is locked up in contracts with the Chinese.

ah.  same thing really.  its not like we can risk upsetting the chinese.

Because it is in Africa?

Because the Chinese fund the mad spending spree by the irresponsible drunken loonies in the current administration by purchasing t-bills and t-bonds.

And parts of africa haven't exactly been cash cows for other nations or political buying pieces.

Getting involved in the whole Iraq/Iran/Israel all have some political pros/cons blah, blah that Darfur wouldnt get.

That is how the political uppity-ups will view it.

Mostly becasue it is the middle of bloody nowhere, it's a complete bastard to get journos into and film back from and there's no large Darfurian emigre community around the world to kick up a stink...and yes, no major government has a strategic interest in what happens there.

If the West had one of its periodic moral high ground moments and tried to send in troops it would have no support from neighbouring countries.  Sudan would immediately play the "return of the colonialists" card and no local government wants to establish a precedent for the West to come in and stop them shooting whoever they damn well please.

Because "Arabs" are doing it and it's better to be culturally sensitive and not say anything bad about Islam.

Who knows, if someone did say something bad about Islam, or how radical Islam today is actually head and shouldes worse than Americanism, maybe 20,000 people would die a week.

aren't they doing "Darfur" on shows like ER and House?

Well as long as ER is addressing the issue, I don't see any reason for the State Department to get involved.

The US will never do anything in Africa or South America. There is no real economic or political interest to get involved.